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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

tive of the Commercial, have not even made
application to be supplied Mr.. Hyman has also
colated the valuable information that factories
are giving up the idea of locating in Toledo and
moving elsewhere. because they cannot get sat.
isfactory terms from the gas companies. From
this accurate data Mr. Hyman Is naturally led
to the conclusion that
There was a boom in anticipation of gas, but
when 1t was found that gas was TO be a luxury
and entirely beyond the reach of the many, the
boom faded. Prices too high to make gas an
attraction. 1t is to coal what manufactured gas
is to coal oil-much more agreeable to use, but
too extensive for the majority and by no meana
a necessity"
Now we would state the Indianapolis News
that the first household supplied with natural
gas In Toledo has lighted the first fire within a
week, that the number is being increased
fast as plumbers can make connections and that
In each case there is enthusiastic commentator
of the new fuel account of its convenience
cleanliness and cheapness. That the Standard
or Northwestern company has not yet turned
on their first supply of gas and so are naturally
not making Toledo pay for her own mains as
they have not vet commenced to derive any
revenue from Toledo that aside from the ad-
vantage of increased cleanliness and
convenience, there is actual money
saving in the use OF gas for household
purposes of nearly 30 per cent over
coal; that the Maunee rolline-mill
the Toledo companies which has determined the
directors to rebuild here instead of going else
where and that there was no boom in Toledo but
what is manifest il was in anticipa-
ton of gas. Our factories are all enlareing
their facilities and employing increased numberr
of laborers, and new enterprises being re.
moved to the city started here all the time.
We submit that this method of in Investigation
on the part of Indianapolis people is uuscrupu-
lous and calculated to do this city great harm.
If Indianapolis wants facts send some one who
is capable OF ascertaining them, and If she sim
ply wants showing to controvert the Standard
Oil Company regardless of facts, send some-
where else than Toledo Citizens of Toledo are
idiots lacking in common sense and they
have not given away their rights and privileges
to soulless corporation bound themselves
by conditions to their own injury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

In the multitude Of articles printed by the
News in defense of the obstructive policy on
the natural gas question, few days
ago stating in substance that the Standard
Oil Company had succeeded in crushing out
competition in Toledo and that city was COM
pletely at the mercy of ''the Octopus'-a term
constantly used by the News to prove that it
is not prejudiced against foreign capital. An
article which we copy from the Toledo Com
mercial, replying to that in the News, puts q
different phase on the matter. Toledo has
pursued the wise policy of legislatng to get
gas instead of to shut it out. Accordingly
che has got it at rate greatly below the
price of coal and is enjoyingit. No doubt In
dianapolis will get gas some time, but it will
not be under the present ordinance nor as a
result of the present policy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

A WASHINGTON special to a Cincinnati pa
per says that when Colonel Matson went to
the President to present the formal invitation
of Indianapolis to Mr.. Cleveland to visit that
city, he asked Colonel Matson what they
would do with him after he got there Colonel
Matson said: eve will take you first to call
on Mrs. Hendricks" It is to be hoped, for
the sake of an concerned, that the Colonel
did not make this promise without having
taken the precaution to ascertain whether or
not Mrs. Hendricks would be at home when
the President called.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02
THE second item in the plan of entertain

THE second item in the plan of entertain
ment at Indianapolis arranged for the
President by Colonel Matson, is a drive to the
tomb of Thomas A. Hendricks. '.After that"
said the genial Colonel Matson, you may
depend upon it that you will be safe in the
hands of the Hoosier Democrats" It was i'm
medately after the rehearsal of this cheerful
programme that the President remembered
made he would probably be unable to remain
in Indianapolis more than two or three hours.
In that time he can listen to Kern's speech or
enjoy a drive to the cemetery, zone er tur-
rer," as Uncle Remus would remark, but not
both
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

THERE are good many wealthy and influ-
entail Republicans in st. Louis, and one
is poor policy to antagonize them by permit
ting any exhibition Of banners or emblems
intended to give offense to members of the
G. A. r. at the coming reunion. st. Louis
is contemplating grand display the oc"a-
sion of the Presidents visit at the end of this
month and it is remembered that the aid Of
these Republican citizens will be wanted in
carrying the affair through successfully.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02
The Indianapolis Gang Unpublished.

EafaVette COurler-
Wicked Chicago is supposed TO be. reckless
as Cincinnati is in many ways, when the critical
period had been reached there was found in their
midst a sufficient number of honorable and de-
termned men to rid their respective communr
ties of the bands of boodlers who had unbiush.
inglv and openly debauched the public treasures
and had made popular elections a farce To thu
shame of every self-respectne Indianian. it re-,
mains for Indianapolis. the capital city of the
State, to allow go UNPUBLISHED its gang of cleo.
ton sharps and ballot box suffers who are quite
as disreputable in themselves and in their M tn.
DDS were those who formerly made the names
of Chicago and Cincinnati odious Why these
men of the Coy stripe have not been summary
punished is something the people of the State
outside of Indianapolis do not fully understand
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

EDITOR SINGERLY, of the Philadelphia
Record, expressed the opinion, on the morn
ing of the Allentown convention, ''that the
fact that Samuel J. Randall voted against the
veto of the INDECENT pension bill afforded no
reason why the Presidents courageous and
patriotic act should not be heartily Endorsed by
the Democratic convention" All the same,
however. it wasn't indorsed Mr. Randall
had finger very deep in that convention
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

THE literary bureau which is conducting
DIR. Joseph Parker's boom as candidate for the
Plymouth Church pastorate should find some
thing fresher than the rm-eaten almanac
jokes it is passing off as specimens Of the rev.
erend gentleman's wit. 1t seems to be thought
that Plymouth Church requires something
humorous, but the people who have been ac-
customed to Beecher's originality will hardly
be attracted by the heavy English style.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

A TRAVELLER in Alaska of investigating
turn has discovered that the name Alaska is
corruption of Al-ay-ek-sa, the given by
the native islanders to the main land, and sieni-
fies great country" In this respect it is well
named Bounded the north by the Arctic
ocean, east by the northwest territory of Cana
da, south and west by the Pacific ocean,
Behring sea and strait, it contains about $751;
400 square miles Ali the other States and Ter
ritories Of the United States combined contain
1910 900 square miles; hence. Alaska is nearly
one-ffth the size of all these
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

THE Chicago Tribune has loud complaint
against the unjust Determinations of the rail
roads against that city. 1t says that owing to
this discrimination over 500 600 hogs have
been diverted from Chicago since March to
Omaha and Kansas City. 1t is something
new for Chicogo to be complaining of railway
Determinations AS general rule, for many
years PAST rates have Disseminated in favor Of
that city as against every other in the West
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02
MI. Hyatf,a Dauyer

New York Mail and Express.
The new Treasurer of the United States will
get into trouble il he does not look out. BY the
last Treasury decision. anyone who imltate ties any
part of United States note is counterfeiter.
Mr.. Hyatt's name being II part. and a very i'm
portant part of these notes certainly comes under
this provision. Consequently if be writes his name
anywhere else it will be counterfeiting, and he
will be liable to arrest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

WHEN a Virginia negro strikes white
woman it costs him $50, while white repre-
sentative Of first family hit a black
woman for $40. Perhaps the unequal fines are
imposed on the theory that the negro with
his debased nature gets five times much
and cultured white gentleman.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

ST. Louis has Hendricks club, too and
for some reason or other even the Democratic
papers speak of it in terms that verge on lev
ity 1t can't be in the name, for there Is
dignity about that 1t must be that, like the
club here, it does not fit its name.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY can go to
Ireland and make many speeches as he
likes in favor of the national movement with
out being accused Of selfish political motives.
No party is thinking of nominating Mr.. Pow
oerly for President.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

THE platform of the Chicago convention is
a Democratic treasure whose value the breth-
rem find it difficult to estimate. They can in
dorse it unanimously and then the protection
and free-trade rings can each boast of tri-
umph for its own side. The platform catches
them going or coming.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

immensely popular with all classes of Demo-
Gratis in Indiana" Sh! All classes7 Did
the Colonel forget Mr.. Voorhees, and his fol-
lowing and Mr. Mcdonald and his friends, to
say nothing of the Coy Harrison gangG
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02
A Change.
Muncie Times.

Muncle Times.
Three weeks ago many of our farmers claimed
that the corn crop would be almost an entire
failure, and were inquring around aoout where
they could buy corn ship in TO fatten their
hogs. Some of the same men were in this week
looking for hogs to feed their surplus corn. The
rains come in time to make great difference IN
calculations
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

town convention became after Mr. Randall had
arranged everything to his own satisfaction
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02
How Gresham Voted.

New Albany Public Press
The Evansville Courier Is authority Tor the
statement that Judge Gresham voted for Tilden
in 1876 and for Cleveland in 1884.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02
Give That Impression.

Pittshurg Chronicle.
The letters from Mr.. Stanley lead to the bs
lief that his last two deaths did not prove fatal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

that carving men for opinions sake or firing
Democracy into them with shotgun is
very different if not in some respects darker
crime than beating step-child to death.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

THE young Prince de Yturbide of Mexico told
a New York reporter that he was at the famous
ball where Mr.. Sedgwick came to grief The
Prince remarked that Mr.. Sedgwick's trouble in
Mexico arose from lack of knowledge that three
cocktails in that city, cat altitude of 1900
feet above the level of the sea. are equal to fye
cocktails in the city of New York" It was an
oversight the part of the State Department
not to remind Mr.. Sedgwick of this fact before
he went to Mexico. 1t should be given promi-
nenJ place in the instructions given to all Demo
Gratis going abroad to represent the government
in high latitudes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02
A MEMBER Of the Microscopists Society. now

MEMBER of the Microscopists' Society, now in
session at Pittsburg. offers some remarks which
should make us thankful that eyes do not
possess microscopic strength. He says:
'.If we could see in the fuzz of ripe peach. the
animals that come out from under those great
fruit trees, which those delicate filaments ap-
pear to be. and fight like wild tigers, and retreat
and come back at one another. and draw streams
of blood, and devour another. the peaches
we eat thereafter would be pretty we'll wiped off
Or, If we could at grain of sugar the
sugar bug. each side of the grain, mounted
on their hind-legs with pair of great CRAB claws
each front leg and immense teeth. shaking
themselves all over every time they brought their
heads down on the sweets, it would be very little
of that stuff that would 60 into coffee. The
skeleton of the great megatherium. in the
Smithsonian Institution, at Washington. repre-
senting that extinct species. squatted its hind
legs and kangaroo tail, and feeding from the top
branches of the tall pine tree. is about the only
thing that could be COMPARED to the sugar bug
should it be with the aid of the microscope.
And as for the bundle of snakes, turtles. and
other reptiles which we gup down with every
swallow of water, why all the sermons of Francis
Murphy or Father Mathew would not prevent a
man from mixing just enough liquor with the
water to kill the animacul9."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

Telephone Calls.
Business o35 Editorial Rooms -242
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02

A Prominent Democratic Editor Tells Why
Cleveland Cannot BE Elected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-02
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

OFFICE-5I3 Fourteenth St.
P. s. HEATH, CORRESPONDENT
The St. Johns herald., 1887-04-28
NAME OF COMPANY.

Mexican horse thieves are still operating in the Sulphur Spring valley. On Thursday last they stole four horses from the Erie Cattle Company, and on Saturday three from Dave Haviland. The animals belonging to the Erie Cattle Com pany have a fve-inch bar-brand on both thighs. Haviland's horses are described as bay and brown mare and a dun pony. A pursuing party chased the thieves as far as the Chiricahua Company's ranch where the trail was lost.-Tombstone Prospector.
The St. Johns herald., 1887-04-28

A special from Cameron, Texas, to the Chicago Times of the 8th instant says; Intelligence reaches here from Rockdale of fatal fight last night between officers and q noted desperado named Ulmann Jacobs. Some weeks ago Jacobs killed a man in this county and went in hiding. Yesterday the Sheriff learned that Jacobs, was stopping with a friend named Ira Bounds, twelve miles south of Rock dale. Three Deputy SheriffS were detailed to make the arrest. Ac- companied by posse of half a dozen citizens, they rode up to Bounds farm and quietly surround ed the house. Hardly had the horsemen appeared in front of the house before the door opened and Jacobs stepped outside with Win chester in his hands.
 With the bravado of a born des- perado he surveyed the officers for d moment and then quietly raised his rife and began the battle, sim gle-handed, against the nine men. His first bullet pierced the body of Deputy Sheriff Pool, who fell from his horse dead. Simultaneously the posse op&ed fire upon Jacobs, who stood unscratched. Deputy Mccall was wounded in the arm, while a member of the posse, Mir. Barber was struck on the head by a glancing bullet and rendered in- sane. After emptying his sixteen shot repeating rifle at the officers, Jacobs threw the gun away, and, drawing his revolver, ran to the rear of the yard followed by show CT of bullets, and miraculously suc- ceeded in escaping to the woods.
 Another posse has gone to the assistance of the officers, who are securing the country for Jacobs, with the avowed intention of lynch ing him as soon as captured. Bar Der cannot live. He is a raving
 maniac.
The St. Johns herald., 1887-04-28

Arizona cattlemen are favored this season by the Pacific coast beef market. Sales are frequently noted by the local press of the Territory of matured steers, to go to San Francisco, and the demand seems to be ,great enough to take nearly
 all the offering of good beef from the ranges at satisfactory prices. Most of the lots are sold on the range, thus giving the producer an opportunity to figure out what his cattle are to net him before they leave the ranch.-Hoof and Horn,
The St. Johns herald., 1887-04-28

An exchange says that Southern California is rapidly developing into a live stock market of such magnitude as will require all the surplus beef raised in Arizona to supply it. The manner in which the country is being settled up and all available land taken for fruit culture, makes it impossible for it to supply the home market with either beef or mutton.
The St. Johns herald., 1887-04-28

The following table, which we get from the Stock Grower, shows the amount of capital invested by for eign companies, the quantity ot land and the number of cattle con- trolled by them. From this show ing some of the largest cattle kings of the west live on the other side of the ocean.
The St. Johns herald., 1887-04-28

The Hoof and Horn says that Gov. Zulick has appointed as mem bers of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission of Arizona the follow ing named gentlemen: Thos. Hal leck, of Mohave county; Henry Smith, of Apache county, and C.. NJ. Bruce, of Cochise, and His Ex- cellency states that the two remain ing vacancies will be filled as soon as possible. The appointments made so far are excellent ones. All the gentlemen named have large interests i'll the live stock line and in the past have been distinguished by being untiring in their efforts to assist every movement that would benefit the cattle interests of the Territory Their past record is a sufficient guaranty that they will we'll and ably discharge all the du' ties of the responsible office tc which they have just been appoint. ed.
 [Mr. Smith, we are authoized to state, has written to Gov. Zulick telling him ot his inability to ac cept the position, and declining the honor with thanks. The Stock As sociation of this county recon mended c. O. Howe, of the Wabash Cattle Company, be appointed as member of the Commission iron this county, which we hope th' Governor will do. ED.
The St. Johns herald., 1887-04-28

Considerable speculation has been indulged in by cattlemen and others interested in beef as to what effect the death of Charles Lux, of the firm of Miller < Lux, would have on the stock raising industry of the Pacific Coast. The agree ment made by Henry Miller and Charles Lux that in the event of the death of either the surviving partner should continue to carry on the business for a period of seven years, the partnership property not to be sold or appraised until the expiration of that time has also been a source of speculation to those not posted as to the shrewd business policy of the celebrated
 firm. The value of the copartner- ship property has been estimated at $1O,OOO,OOO, which is probably the valuation at which it has been as- sessed, but men who have long been posted as to its various interests say that $4O,OO0,000 would not buy it's landed property alone. One ranch, probably the largest and most valuable in the world, consists of 21O,OOO acres of the finest land in California, is situated in Kern and Tulare counties, and could easily be disposed at s1OO an acre. On this ranch the firm has contin- ually thousands of head of cattle and from 10000 to 15,000 sheep, all of which can be prepared and ship ped to market at short notice. This, together with numerous other land- ed property in California, Oregon and Nevada, undoubtedly makes this firm the largest real estate pro-
 prietor in the United States. It will thus be seen at a glance what powerful influence such firm could and does exert on the cattle indus try of the Pacific Coast. Until the exniration of the seven years 1t IS
 probable the query will continue to excite those of speculative mind. Reno (Nev. Stockman.
The St. Johns herald., 1887-04-28

Five men were arrested at Con- tention, Friday, on charge of cat tie theft. The charge was lodged by John Vaughn, ,after having found a hide with his brand, in the pos session of L. Larrieu, one of the arrested parties. Larrieu conducts q butcher business at Contention, and the other pArties arrested are in his employ. They were arraigned before Justice Shearer and released on bond of $500 each which was readily given. The examining trial comes off next Tuesday.-Tomb- stone Democrat.
The St. Johns herald., 1887-04-28

A London special to the New York Times of the 11th inst. says: The detailed provisions of the alien land act, which were only known here this week, created the greatest excitement in financial circles. One great city speculator tells me that not less than three hundred big American land schemes are knocked in the head by it. For years Lon- don has been full of American pro- moters of all sorts-mines, ranches and estates, to sell off or float in conpanies-these ranging all the way from millionaires to needy ad- venturers. These gentry are now conscious that they have sustained a grievous set back.
 Dorsey, who recently gave great and ostentatious dinner here, is now in Holland, where he was negotia- ting with an Amsterdam company to buy a tract of several millions of acres in New Mexico, with a view to selling it here to a London syndicate if he succeeded. He IS now badly left since he will be una ble to find purchaser either here or in America.
 Rufus Hatch is also here trying to unload a nice little ranch, and finds himself high and dry. City investors and agents are almost in a state of panic, since it is uncer- tain how deeply the clause forbid ding aliens to have even an indi- rect interest in land may shake mortgages and loan companies. The Mines Company, of Graham 
 House, the biggest concern of ne gotiating agents in Europe, has passed a resolution that hereafter Il will refuse to deal with any and all American mines, lands and securi- ties in the territories, even If the way is found to evade the law. The fact has scared the heretofore cred ulous English public out of all no ton of touching American invest ments.
 There would be some consolation in the thought that this might drive home the swarm of American sharpers who have been a nuisance here so long, if it were not for tht fact that many of them will be Jeff
 utterly destitute of borrowers. A | few whose interests are Tn Nevada
 and California are in high featheI
 at their luck. Naturally colOnia
 speculators are enraptured at thu
The St. Johns herald., 1887-04-28

During the month of March 1,O31 cattle were shipped from Will cox to California. Of thls number all but 101 head were shipped by the Chiricahua Cattle Company to the San Diego market and their fattening range for that county The 1O1 head were shipped by J. L. Powell to Los Angeles.-Wilco1 Stockman.
The St. Johns herald., 1887-04-28

uated in northwestern New Mexico, will fence the property, comprising nearly 65O,OO0 acres, and stock the same with cattle this summer. The outlook was never better through out New Mexico for a prosperous year for cattlemen and the live stock interests. It is freely pre- dicted that shipping steers will be worth from B to 4 cents per pound on the range before the year closes.